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CHATELAIN, A[uguste]. Des erreurs et préjugés populaires en médecine. Neuchatel. Delachaux et Sandoz, 1865. First edition. 8vo. xiv, [2], 206pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked, slight loss to foot of dulled spine, early inked ownership inscription to head of upper wrapper. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31794
SPELMAN, Henry. De sepultura. London. Printed by Robert Young, 1641. Quarto. [2], 38pp. Without final (blank) leaf. Recent blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Book-label of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, leaves toned, occasional spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22202
PETRAFICTA, Sebastianus. De Sensuum externorum: usu, affectionibusq[ue]; deq[ue] memoriæ cum rationis laesione vitio, medalaq[ue]...tractatus. Venetijs [i.e. Venice]. Apud Gratiosum Perchacinu[m], 1594. First edition. Quarto. 39 leaves. Without terminal blank leaf. Recent calf-backed marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed, joints starting. Marbled endpapers, inked ownership inscription of Sybil Cooper to front blank fly-leaf, dampstaining to latter half of text-block. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 23209
TASSIE, William. Descriptive Catalogue of a collection of devices and mottos english, french, and italian, from Engraved Seals, formed in composition paste, and sold by william tassie, leicester-square. London. Printed by William Bulmer and Co., 1816. First edition. 12mo. [8], 43pp, [1]. With a half-title. Original publisher's printed powder blue paper boards, recently rebacked in black cloth. Ink-stamp of the Birmingham Assay Office to front blank fly-leaf, later inked gift inscription and annotation to half-title, manuscript numerals to REP, occasional paper repairs to gutter margins, scattered spotting. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 30905
CLELAND, James. Description of the Banquet in honor of the right honble sir robert peel, bart. m.p.. Glasgow. John Smith & Son, 1837. First edition. Quarto. [6], 144pp. With an additional engraved title page, a large terminal folding engraving depicting a view of the grand banqueting hall, and a further three engraved plates. Bound by Carss of Glasgow in contemporary straight-grain dark green half-morocco, printed buff paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G. Heavily rubbed and marked, corners exposed. Armorial bookplate and inked ownership inscription of Henry Wilson Cleland dated ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 33459
MAGELLEN, J[ean] H[yacinthe] de. Description of a glass-apparatus from making In a few Minutes, and at very small Expence, the best mineral waters of pyrmont, spa, seltzer, seydschtz, aix-la-chapelle, &c. together with the description of two new eudiometers... London. Printed for the Author, 1783. Third edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged by the author. 8vo. viii, 80pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Uncut and unopened in later speckled paper wrappers. Extremities rubbed, later blank paper label to upper wrapper. Small worm-track to upper corners of first two leaves. Presentation copy, inked inscription to foot of title page: 'ex dono authoris'. More > £ 650.00 Antiquates Ref. 19239
PONT, Robert. De sabbaticorum annorum periodis chronologica a mundi exordio ad nostra usque secula et porro digesto. Per Robertum Pontanum, Caledonium Britannum. [London]. Excusum per Gulielmum Jones, 1619. First Latin edition. Quarto. [16], 203pp, [1]. With an elaborate printer's device featuring an operational printing press in a print shop. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf, with the gilt armorial supralibros to both boards and monograms to spine compartments of Achille III de Harlay, Comte de Beaumont (1639-1712). Wear to spine and corners, chipping at head and foot of spine, cracking to joints (boards nevertheless firmly attached). M3-4 with old ... More > £ 2,000.00 Antiquates Ref. 33289
HERDER, Johann Gottfried von. Der Cid nach spanischen Romanzen. Stuttgart und Tubingen. Verlag der J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1838. First illustrated edition. Quarto. [6], 238pp. With an engraved half-title, an additional engraved title-page, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text by Eugen Neureuther. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G. Rubbed, some surface loss to upper board. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Edward Nicholas Hurt to FEP, foxed throughout. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 16891
WILDE, Oscar. De profundis. London. Methuen and Co., [1905]. Second edition. 8vo. 151pp. Bound for Hatchards in contemporary gilt-ruled red half-morocco, red cloth boards. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine lightly sunned. Occasional light marking to initial leaves, edges of endpapers browned. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34310
CALONNE, M. [Charles Alexandre] De. De l'état de la France, présent et a venir. Londres [i.e. London]. De L'Imprimerie de T. Spilsbury & Fils, 1790. First edition. 8vo. [2], viii, 318pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled half-calf, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, marbled boards. Rubbed and marked, joints split, small losses to head and foot of spine. Spotting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34137
ALBERTI, Leonbatista. Della pittura e della statua. Milano. Dalla Società Tipograpfica de'Classici Italiani, 1804. 8vo. xxv, [1], 136pp, [4]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a further six engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, supralibros of George Agar-Ellis to both boards. Rubbed, without lettering-pieces. Recent bookplates of J. B. Bury and Michael Bury to FEP. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 32523
HELVÉTIUS, [Claude Adrien]. De l'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles et de son éducation. A Londres [i.e. The Hague]. Chez la Société Typographique, 1773. 12mo. In two volumes. [2], lxiv, 639, [1]; [2], 760pp. With a final leaf of errata to Vol. II. In this edition, there is no comma after 'intellectuelles, line six of title reads 'et de son' and the title page ornament does not have typographical elements. Contemporary calf, recently expertly rebacked, lettered in gilt. Boards rubbed and marked. Armorial bookplates of the Swansea Training College to ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 23773
THIERS, Marie Adolphe. De la propriété. Paris. Paulin, Lheureux et Cie, 1848. First French edition. 8vo. [4], 439pp. With half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled boards. Rubbed and marked, with surface wear to spine and edges. Armorial bookplate of Orwell Park to FEP. Heavy spotting to title and blank fly-leaves, lighter spotting to text. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 34150